Titanic: A Complete History

Kilsheelan NS 5th and 6th Class

BUILDING TITANIC

As the biggest ship of its day Titanic construction took a little over two years to build. The Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland. The making of the Titanic began at building the keel, the backbone and the very bottom of the ship. Then the hull was built and then the watertight steel body was built around it. Four twenty meter funnels towered above the vessel, dwarfing any other ships.

THOMAS ANDREWS AND TITANICS WORKFORCE

Thomas Andrews jr was a British business man and shipbuilder. He was the designer of the titanic. He was head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harlan & Wolff.

With a workforce of over 15000 people, Titanic was not only a groundbreakingly big ship for its day, it was also one of the ships that took longest to build back then. While most ships took around 42 days to build, Titanic took almost 3 years to build.

FACTS ABOUT THE BUILDING PROCESS

The estimated cost of building the ship was around $7.5million in 1912. (around $198million today) . It took twenty horses just to haul the main anchor. The Titanic was assigned yard number 401 at its inception. It was constructed on slipway number three, under a gantry that stood 228 feet tall (69 metres), the largest in the world at that time. Harland & Wolff, the shipyard responsible for the Titanic, employed around 14,000 men, with the workforce totalling at around 15,000 during the height of the ship’s construction. about 3,000 shipbuilders from Harland & Wolff were involved in the Titanic’s construction, being a large number of their workforce.